This paper provides brief analysis of selected macroeconomical indicators of US economy and tries to sketch out possible future development of these variables. The main conclusion is that United States may be really threatened by possible inflation pressures in the future, as well as by possible ...
For months, the outlook for the U.S. economy has been a mostly bleak one: Inflation hitting a four-decade high, consumer spending weakening, interest rates surging. Most economistspenciled in a recessionfor 2023.An economic downturn is still possible. Yet in recent weeks, with inflation showin...
"We are starting to see persistent inflation creeping into the economy," Steve Rick, chief economist at CUNA Mutual Group, told The New York Times. "We are really concerned about this turning into a wage price spiral, with wages rising and making it hard to get inflation down anytime soon...
根据最后一段Essentially,while the US economy remains afloat,we will witness multiple generations of Americans sinking in their own lifeboats in the years ahead.(从本质上讲,当美国经济还在漂浮的时候,我们将会在未来几年见证几代美国人在他们自己的救生艇上下沉。)可推知,作者对美国人的未来前景持消极态度...
The question now is whether the Fed has any other way to stimulate the economy if there is a sharp slowdown in the US economy and inflation in the future, except for QE3. In response, Fed officials say there are still tools. The first is to further strengthen communication with the publi...
But those sanctions do not help in solving Ukraine crisis. By then, gas sanctions, which will have heavier impact on Europe, have to be discussed. The correct path at the end, would be peace talk.RELATED STORIES Economist: Trump's tariffs will cause US inflation to surge...
The weeklong annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank, which started on Monday, are being held in person in Washington for the first time since the pandemic started. "We have calculated that the equivalent of about one-third ...
something that had been missing in action in the U.S. for a generation, wouldn’t stay long. It would prove “transitory,’’ in the soothing words of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and White House officials, as the economy shifted from virus-related chaos to something closer to normal...
The inflation genie is now out of the bottle and it is going to be very hard to put him back in. The amount of money thrown at the economy after the pandemic has resulted in a sharp increase in prices and there is nothing in the data that suggests this increase is about to quickly ...
So far, inflation is roaring in only a few sectors of the economy. While platinum has soared 121 percent, soybeans have risen 115 percent, and an index of Real Estate Investment Trusts has climbed 42 percent since May 2001, the consumer price index (CPI) has gone up only 4.2 percent dur...